Possibility Chambers (2018) Robert C Beck and Sarah Max Beck PVC, post-consumer plastic, steel, electronics, wood, glass, horse tail rush, fiber optic grass, taro, canna, tiger nut, spider plant, various wetland volunteer plants, lemon balm, cilantro, aloe, katuk, monstera deliciosa, earth, water, rock dust, micro organisms, mycorrhizae, three southeastern leopard frog tadpoles, human urine [...]

Ready-made  (2016) Watercolor on paper 20 x 20 inches The first thing that springs to my mind when hearing the term “Ready-made” is the name Marcel Duchamp. He coined the term in the early twentieth century art movement, Dada, with the famed work entitled Fountain, (1917). Fountain was submitted to an exhibition organized by the Society of Independent Artists, which [...]

The Krasner (2015) Watercolor on paper 20 x 28 inches I love plants. The forms found within flora never cease to amaze me. Even with the most banal house plants, I want to know what's special about them. I want to discover the secret; the knowledge of the greenest green thumb which is generally, [...]

Hydrogen on the Left (2015) Watercolor on paper 20 x 28 inches Hydrogen, atomic number: 1 The first thing we are usually introduced to in Biology 101 is nitrogen. The classic textbook illustration of the nitrogen cycle, where the sun is shining through the sky over a smoking volcano, lightning bolts streak from cumulous [...]

Jugs with Polkadot Skirt (2015) Watercolor on paper 20 x 28 inches   When my wife Sarah and I moved to New York, one of the first things we experienced was the two-and-a-half block affair for drinking water. I would walk down Columbus Ave to the Pioneer grocery store and buy two [...]